I emerge from my E7 shelter halfway through the show to offer some commentary that you probably won’t read
Posted: July 12, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized 15 Comments »
What makes Eureka Seven good? I have no clue. And I’m not going to try and write lengthy essays on the appeal of the series, either. You people who’ve already written lengthy essays on E7 will probably shoot my speculation boat down with your criticism lasers, so it’s not worth it.
But I do know one thing: Eureka Seven is, as of episode thirty-something, my favorite anime of all time.
Well, I do know more than one thing, actually. Or else I’d’ve stopped this post before this line.
Eureka Seven isn’t perfect. I can probably name off a hundred different things that could be used to support an argument that E7 is pretty shitty. (Of course, this may be saying something about my powers of nitpicking and/or drawing proof out of my ass.)
Okay, so we’ve got it down that E7 could be considered bad (just pretend we did). So why would I call it my favorite anime? I’m not even done with it, and endings mean a lot to my views on anime (just look at After Story’s deus ex machina ending!).
My liking of anime is like Renton’s liking of Eureka: love at first sight. Or something along those lines.
Of course, making an incredible first impression on me doesn’t hurt. Eureka Seven made the best first impression on me that any anime has ever made on me (pardon the shoddy english). Whenever somebody recommends me an anime and I see that it’s generally considered good, I have a tendency to try and attack the series in my quest to become a maverick. But the moment I double-clicked on “episode one,” I was hit by the real-world equivalent of a Seven Swell.
The first episode included:
- Renton Thurston’s introduction
- Renton Thurston’s description of the town that he doesn’t like
- The board-fixing guy who doesn’t appear ever again in the show
- Grandpa Thurston
- SUDDENLY, EUREKA APPEARS
- Awesome stuff
- Etc.
So in a nutshell, you plunge into an epic world head-first. Eureka appears, Renton’s family history is revealed, Renton’s dreams and hopes are revealed, etc. There isn’t anything as retarded as kicking the show off with a ridiculous battle for the shock and awe factor, nor is there anything equally retarded as kicking the show off with a total filler episode explaining everything flat-out. You get a show that’s half laid-back with the somewhat slice-of-life aspects of Renton’s life and half actiony with Eureka’s sudden appearance.
And then the show kept that feel. Never before have I seen or heard of a mecha show that’s also slice-of-life. You’d think that that’d be one huge recipe for failure, but Eureka Seven pulls it off well. I’m around three-fourths through the show, and I’ve seen the slow but steady transition from slice-of-life mecha to epic show of awesomeness.
You could say that Gurren Lagann also achieved this, but that show went above and bey0nd the limits of reason. Somewhere along the line, the epicness became ridiculous. E7 doesn’t. It starts out good, gets better, and hopefully ends at the pinnacle of its glory, atop the throne of all anime.
...to watching more E7! Blogging takes a lower priority!
tl;dr Eureka is awesome, and I have a figure of her in front of my monitor.
The figure is actually kind of distracting me from the show. It’s hard to watch a show when a character from the show is staring at you.
Yes, this was pretty half-assed, but halfway through typing this, I got bored and wanted to watch E7.
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I started reading at “tl;dr Eureka is awesome.” I hope the movie comes to a theater in my area.
nanashi has subbed the movie in 720p and it is available via bittorrent download. its over 4.3gb! but WELL WORTH THE DOWNLOAD TIME AND SPACE CONSUMPTION!!!!!
the movie was a big letdown for me, but you should see it for yourself anyways.
Another series with art that doesn’t appeal to me that must be watched anyways?
Wait, what? You said Eureka ‘could be considered bad’? So then every other fucking anime ever made must be fucking terrible right? Because Eureka Seven is pretty fucking close to sheer perfection from any kind of technical standpoint. So I’m glad you like it.
Eureka Seven is great series. Although I might want to re-watch it later on since I marathon’d it. Well, the last 10 episodes anyways.
I have never seen this, but now I want to. Holy shit I have like 500000000000 different shows I want to watch but no fucking time.
Epic. Even the trailer for the last couple episodes was epic. But, it’s gonna hit my wallet hard to collect the DVDs.
Judging from the second pic, Renton must have smelled Eureka’s upper-lip :3
I stopped watching E7 when they (the popo) took my cable away (it used to give on adult swim). I missed like 20 episodes because of that, so I just dropped it. Of course, those were my peekaboo weeaboo days, and since there’s a steady stream of blu-rays coming out, maybe I should hop on board again =3
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@all: E7 is the greatest anime ever made.
@21stcenturydigitalboy: Yes.
@InTraining: I want to watch th- I’m going to watch that.
Full Metal Panic is also slice of life / mecha, but it doesn’t really pull it off well.
I mean, 2nd season aside – and that’s more absurdist comedy than anything else. The thing is that in E7 the two manage to not get in each others’ way and in FMP the two are always in each other’s way – Souske answers his cell phone while dodging a hail of bullets to explain that he might not make it back for the test, etc.
Yeah. In E7, the slice of life aspects are combined with the mecha aspects, whereas FMP feels like two separate shows smashed up into one – one slice of life comedy, and the other, mecha. It’s good, but there’s no “natural” feel to it.
I love her too!!
Love at first sight strikes again.. ^^